Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse

The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

That hadde ylad of donge / ful many a ffoother A trewe swynkere / and a good was he Lyuynge in pees / and perfit charitee 532 God loued he best with al his hoole herte At alle tymes / thogh hym gamed / or smerte And thanne his Neighebore / right as hym selue He wolde thresshe / and ther to / dyke and delue 536 ffor Cristes sake / with euery poure wight With outen hyre / if it laye in his myght His tythes payde he / ful faire and wel Bothe of his propre swynk and his catel 540 In a Tabard he rood / vp on a Mere Ther was also / a Reue / and a Millere A Somonour / and a Pardoner also A Maunciple / and my self ther weere namo 544 ¶ The Millere / was a stout carl / for the nones [Millere.] fful byg he was / of brawen / and eek of bones That proeued wel / for ouer al ther he cam At wrastlynge / he wolde haue alwey the Ram 548 He was short shuldred / brood / a thikke knarre Ther was no dore / that he noolde heue of harre Or breke it at a rennynge / with his heed [folio 9a] His beerd / as any sowe / or fox / was reed 552 And ther to brood / as thogh it weere a spaade Vp on the cope right of his nose he haade A werte / and ther on stood / a tuft of heerys Reede / as the bristles / of a Sowes eerys 556 Hise nosethirles / blake weere and wyde A swerd and a bokeler / baar he by his syde His mouth as greet was / as a greet fourneys He was a Ianglere / a Golyardeys 560 And that was moost of synne and harlotryes Wel koude he stelen corn / and tollen thryes And yet he hadde / a thombe of gold pardee A whit coote / and a blew hood wered hee 564 A Baggepipe / wel koude he / blowe and sowne
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The Hengwrt ms of Chaucer's Canterbury tales / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.
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London :: Published for the Chaucer Society by N. Trübner,
1868-1879.

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